Even if the God Almighty wrote the order, man can breach it, if he
will. I think it unrealistic something written down can prevent anyone
to do something, either bad or good, deliberately.
Rather is it a matter of these:
* If an organization (here WMF) must have a policy which dictate the
affected party to do so-and-so and not to do so-and-so? What will this
policy benefit the organization and the projects that org is running?
* And if that is breached, what kind of sanctions must be legally
posed and must not?
I say "must" - if that policy is something the org in question either
may or may not have, something without which the org has no problem
and won't, I strongly doubt if it is really a good idea to compose
such ... but IANAL and may be too naive in this point.
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)verizon.net> wrote:
Dan Rosenthal wrote:
I 100% agree about a code of conduct. A
non-disparagement agreement
will not stop someone from getting pissed off and throwing their
burrito, but a code of conduct will; and it (code) will do so without
hindering whistleblowing activities, or disrupting others' rights to
free speech.
I guess I don't see how a code of conduct will stop someone from doing
something when a non-disparagement agreement would not. Other than the
name you give it, what's the difference? In the end, they're both just
pieces of paper with somebody's signature on them.
--Michael Snow
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